Give Peace A Month
January saw peace threatening to break out in a number of global hot spots, as if world leaders had made a collective New Year's resolution for harmony. India and Pakistan  who not so long ago were at the nuclear brink over Kashmir  met for warm talks in Islamabad and promised to keep talking. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf declared the commitment to talk a victory "for all those peace-loving people of the world."

Syria and Turkey also seem to have gotten over long-standing territorial feuds: last week, Bashar Assad became...